Selasa, 10 Desember 2013

Low Creativity in Our Education Worl

Creativity is a term that is already very familiar among teachers and
educators in the country . It would be understandable , because creativity is
an important terminology in the world of education and teaching as well as
human resource development . However , when asked further what is meant by
creativity , especially how to foster creativity tips in the context of
learning in schools , the authors are not sure of all the teachers and
educators can menjelaskanya , it must have practiced it .

It is said that as a result of lack of attention to this problem , until now
creativity is still a rare commodity in our education environment , both in the
teachers and students . Examples of creativity scarcity of teachers for example
can be seen from the low quantity of participation and their involvement in
various events held lots of creativity , both in the environment and non - MONE
MONE . Just to cite an example , according to information participation of
Indonesian high school teacher and equals that follow LMKS ( Competition
Reviewing Literature ) and LMCP ( Short Story Writing Competition ) held by
Dikdasmen every year on average only by approximately 200 people only teacher .
Though the number of Indonesian teachers who teach in high school and equal (
SMK and MA ) , both public and private in this country has reached thousands of
people . A similar picture is true of teachers of subjects other groups .

What about the creativity of our students ? It seems to have valid legal
causation . Creativity of the students we are generally still very low , and
far behind when compared with students from other countries . Just a picture ,
according to the results of research conducted by the University of Utah Hans
Jellen U.S. and Klaus Urban of the University of Hannover, Germany in August
1987 against Indonesian children aged 10 years ( with a sample of 50 children
in Jakarta ) , showed that the level of creativity Indonesian children are in
the final sequence of the 8 states that the study sample . The order of ranking
as follows ( from highest to lowest ) : Philippines , USA , UK , Germany ,
India , PRC , Cameroon , Zulu , and Indonesia ( Drs. Smith Djunaedi , Mind ,
January 10, 2005 ) .

What exactly is meant by the creativity ? Roger B. Yepsen Jr. . ( 1996) say
that creativity is the capacity to create new things Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
According to (1996 ) that creative people are those who think or act to change
a domain or set up a new realm ( Drs. Smith Djunaedi , Mind , January 10, 2005
) . Based on these two statements the term creativity is used to refer to an
individual's ability to rely on its potential and skills to generate new ideas
and fresh insights are very valuable .

Coverage area of ​​creativity is not limited to acts that are physically
working . The ability to be a good penyimak , who listened to ideas that come
from the outside world and from within yourself or from the subconscious is
also the area of ​​creativity . Thus creativity creativity more precisely
defined as an experience of an individual to express and actualize their
identity in an integrated manner in the close relationships with self, others,
and also the surrounding natural environment .

Psychologists to date there is still no agreement on what factors and motives
underlying the basic needs of human beings to be creative . Nevertheless, they
agreed that there are real benefits and rewards that can be observed can be
identified as a human motive to be creative . Also based on the research also revealed
that men usually do creations as driven by basic needs , such as : security ,
love , and appreciation . They are also motivated to be creative by the
environment and the benefits of creating such a more enjoyable life , greater
self- confidence , joy of life , and the possibility to show their best
abilities to others .

There are many ways that can be done by someone to bring her creative ideas .
But before I bring these techniques , which should be understood by us that the
development of creativity techniques were in various stages of development
based on the actual whole range of ideas as a way to obtain a good and creative
idea . Thus the first step to bring the birth of a creativity is to bring as
many ideas or opinions , both from ourselves and others.

There are at least two techniques that we can use to gather ideas . The first
is a brainstorming technique . Brainstorming technique is probably the most
used , but also the creative solving techniques are not widely understood .
Many people use the term to refer to a brainstorming process that produces a
new idea , or uses the term to refer to a collection of problem-solving process
. Actually brainstorming technique is an activity that generates ideas that try
to overcome all obstacles and criticism . These activities gave rise to many
ideas , including ideas that deviate wildly , and dare to hope that these ideas
can generate better ideas and creative . This technique tends to produce an
original new ideas to add to the existing number of conventional ideas .

Both techniques sinektik . Analogy has long been used as one tool for creative
drafting process . Sinektik is a method or process that uses metaphors and
analogies to generate creative ideas or a fresh insight into the problem . In
order to stop the old habits and old ideas and to introduce a relaxed
atmosphere in the process of extracting ideas , then try to make the process
sinektik "foreign " to " familiar " and vice versa .

While a number of obstacles that usually an obstacle in fostering creativity by
Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan ( 2000) is as follows . As a result of that habit
, inability memenej time , due to the overrun problem , behave as if there are
no problems , fear of failure , being instant ( want an answer right then and there
) , has a tough mental attitude directed , as well as fear of criticism from
others on what he does . People who are not able to overcome these constraints
will be difficult to grow its creative potential . Therefore, first and
foremost step to overcome creativity melenjitkan advance these constraints .
Not mudang indeed , but we must try .